Sentence example with the word 'primness'

primness

buckram, ceremony, extrinsicality, formalization, mauvaise honte, pomposity, puritanicalness, sanctimoniousness, starchiness, straitlacedness

Definition n. excessive or affected modesty

Last update: July 1, 2015


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Who would have dreamed that behind her primness all this frolic lay in ambush.   [Please select]

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The most rigorous primness of behavior does not daunt them, nor the assertion of an icily virtuous intangibility.   [Please select]

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In day dress she has always been inclined ever so little to a primness and severity that suggest old-maidishness.   [Please select]

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MacPherson," I heard her say with double-distilled primness, "will you please come into the parlour.   [Please select]

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She clung to him in the most barefaced fashion, and all her former primness and reserve were swept away completely.   [Please select]

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The primness of her was indescribable, and was not at all ruffled by Dan's hoot of derision.   [Please select]

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